Hey, I have never had a proper paid hosted website up, and neither have I experince with hosting (except from freewebs lol) and within the next couple of days I am getting my first site up. I have a host chosen, so thats fine. I also have my domain with GoDaddy ready for the site. However I was just wondering if you guys could answer my questions please. 1) Is there a program where I can add the files I have on my laptop, and add them to my host? So when the site needs updating I edit the files on my laptop and then upload them again to the server. This way if the site gets deleted or whatever all the up to date files are on my laptop ready to be re-uploaded. 2) If there is a program like this, which works well and is easy to use. Also must be free, please provide me an link to get it. 3) I would like my website to have pretty URLs, I think this is called MOD re-write. For example; I don't want: www.domain.com/index.html I want: www.domain.com/ Another example; I don't want: www.domain.com/about.html I want: www.domain.com/about/ Can you help with this? 4) I need to add 404 pages, so if a URL that leads to a page that dosen't exist or someone as mistypes the URL it will come up saying a message this page dosen't exist or maybe in development etc. The 404 page must also be like a normal web page, with the layout and links. I hope you guys can help. Thanks, BlueEew.
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